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...crusader, Mrs. Felton has taken the stump for Prohibition, woman suffrage, maternity laws. She has made many a famed utterance, some of which are: "Our government permits children to many who know no more about raising a family than the loose straws in a last year's bird's nest...
...arrive presently for the purpose of hiring a stenographer. Enter a stage version of Bernarr, also in a one-piece bathing suit, with pronounced features. After setting-up exercises, he calls for the applicants to enter. As they file in, in scanty costume, each is measured by the bird-like youth for hip, breast, ankle, calf dimensions. The evidence having been accumulated, the publisher ponders the records, the while his young attendant implores him to write his memoirs. The girl with the most perfect measurements is just about to be appointed to fill the position when in marches a woman...
ANSWER: The Rifleman-bird...
...Butcher bird. (He often impales his prey-small animals and large insects-on thorns...
...only thing of interest to commerce so far discovered in Dutch New Guinea are the birds of paradise. In quest of these, adventurers, Australians. Chinamen, and Malays have performed exploits comparable only to those of the pioneers in our West. But with changes in styles, birds are no longer worth hunting, and while the boats of the bird hunters continue to rot on the strand, New Guinea will remain in its present state of mystery and oblivion...